The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| tartan body of the United States remains the
| same as it was four years ago, while the 1898
| of the Universalists of that date have fallen TO
! 81, $50.
HOTEL clerk says that his hardest task is al
! ways to smile at the guests of the hotel. He
would have no difficulty, probably, in smiling
with them. But the hard-hearted proprietor
| won't let him.
| In THE eighty-nine higher grammar schools
| in Germany which are entitled to grant certlfl-
Gates of proficiency requisite in order that nili
tary service may be reduced from three years
| to one French and English are the only foreign
languages taught, Latin being excluded
PERHAPS one of the most primitive of indie
pendent Kingdoms is the little island of Jo-
hanna, in the Comoro group. The Sultan
boards any ship that may call there, and en-
beavers to secure the washing for his wlVeS
whilst the Prime Minister peddleS cocoanuts
and bananas
FIVE men, who had been arrested for plumber
ing sleeping car on the Baltimore and Ohio
train, of the satchels belonging TO passengers
escaped from the Jail at Grafton, w. Va. on
Friday night. They overpowered the Jaller
while being locked up and made their way
through the window of the office.
MANY New York truckmen are showing a
spirit of true kindness toward their horses dur
ing this hot weather, For instance, as many of
y
have a contrivance of ropes and adjustable pull
leys by which the weight Of the shafts is lifted
from the horse. The horse remains between the
shafts, but all that he has to do is to stand on
his feet.
FRIEDRICH FRoEBEL founded the first kinder
garten at BlacFenburg, Thuringia, in 1887. 1t
became the model for similar institutions in
many parts of Germany and other countries.
The name means child's garden or child's
school. FroebelS system was at first regarded
children, and in 1851 kindergarten established
by his nephew was closed by the Prussian gov
eminent. .e-. .t. f.
The dog messenger corps for the German
army is being carefully trained just now by the
Schwerin garrison. Swift and intelligent dogs
are chosen, and are taken out by the patrols reg
ulariy to the outposts where pencil notes are tied
to their collars and the dogs are dispatched back
to given point. When anv of the garrison are
manBvering at night the dogs accompany the
advanced sentinels Of the bivouac,. and are
taught to watch for and bark violently at the
faintest sign of any one approaching the camp.
WHILE Coils P. Huntington was away in Eu-
rope report was circulated to the effect that
he had bought the steamships of the Monarch
line and would run them in connection with the
Chesapeake and Ohio system at Newport News.
Mr.. Huntington was at his office in the Mills
building Wednesday for the first time since his
return, and he stated that he hadn't bought the
steamships mentioned, ana laQn Z contemplated
any purchase of that character. Il intend, how
ever, he added, ito build new steamships and
sail them from Newport News in connection
with the Chesapeake and Ohio"
A FORMER RESIDENT of Springfield, Mass,
writes home from Gambler, Marion county, Fla,
that he is delighted with the land of flowers,
adding: Il have had four years of practical
experience, and have learned something every
year Florida has treated me kindly. so that
hause no cause to murmur. My health has been
the best. My orange grove has done well and is
now quite large, being in fact, "a thing of
beauty, and hope that it will be "a joy forever
have 900 fruit trees of different kinds to care
for, and my peaches, bananas, grapes, figs,
guavas plums and persimmonS are all doing
well"
THE New York Worlds London correspondent
telegraphs: The fortnight's sleep of the French
commercial traveller Chaffat, which created such
sensation in London last spring, has been COM
pletely ecipsed by Russian sailor at the Wal
ton workhouse, near Liverpool Winstoffsky
was brought to the workhouse in sleepy con-
dition early in July, 1886, and at once went off
into pleasant doZe, which lasted until last Sat
urday week, when he woke up. apparently much
refreshed. On awakening, Winstoffsl1y was
quite convinced that he had only taken his
usual nights rest. He had been fed regularly
and his general condition of health was excel
lent.
A CORRESPONDENT, writing to Nature from
Pollokshields, Glasgow, says: my children and
their governess when staying in the north of
Ireland lately, witnessed the following curious
display of feeling in animals not usually
credited with feelings. A boar pig was in the
habit every morning of going to the basket
where a blind kitten of about six weeks old was
kept, allowing the little thing to creep on his
back. and then taking it about and caring for it
during the day. The kitten got its food at the
same time as the pig, and at the same trough.
In the evening the man who saw to the animals
used to carry the kitten back to the basket to
pass the night oh done la vertu va-t-elle Sc
nichery"
WHY two pieces of wood sawn from the same
section of tree should possess very varied char
acteristics when used in different positions a
scientific writer remarks, has often puzzled OBJ
servers. For example, gate-post is found to
decay much faster if the butt end of the tree be
placed uppermost than would be the case if the
top be placed in this position, the reason being
that the moisture of the atmosphere will per-
meate the pores of the wood much more rap
idly the way the tree grew than it would in the
opposite direction. MicroScopical examination
proves that the pores invite the ascent of the
moisture while they repel its descent. The
familiar case of a wooden bucket is in point
that is, of the slaves appear to be entirely
saturated, while others are apparently quite
dry. This also arises from the same causes
namely, the dry slaves are in the position in
which the tree grew, while the saturated ones
are reversed.
AT the meeting of the French Academy of
Medicine ten days ago DR.. Mesnet communi-
Gated 70 his colleagues a most curious case of
hypnotism. A young woman, at the age of %
who is now at the Hotel Dieu Hospital, at Paris
recently brought into the world little French
citizen while in q state of hypnotic sleep, with
out feeling the usual labor pains, or, in fact
knowing anything of the matter until she was
aroused from her slumber after all was over
For several years past she has been favorite
subject for hypnotic experiments at the varions
hospitals at Paris. At the moment when the
labor was about to begin DR.. Mesnet hypnotzed
her. He closed her eyelids, and while the work
of nature was proceeding in the most normal
manner possible, the patient was away in
dreamland do you feel any pain?'' asked the
doctor. Very little" replied the sleeper.
doctor and repeated this order from time to
time during the following twenty hours which
elapsed before the birth took place. To every
inquiry as to whether she was suffering she re-
piled in the negative. At length, after every
thing had been brought to satisfactory ter
mination, she was aroused from her slumber
Looking around about her she tried for a few
moments to gather her thoughts together, and
expressed surprise that she should have slept so
long. Then suddenly with cry of astonish-
ment she exclaimed, But what has happened
to meg" The doctors placed the infant in her
arms and thereby gave her pleasant explana-
with reference to this case that it is quite likely
that hypnotism may eventually take the place
of anesthetics in surgical operations
IT is ANNOUNCED that Mr.. Andrew Carnegie is
about to purchase Aboyue Castle, the magnif.